Lisa Marie Blair

Essays from a compulsive writer and professional overthinker. She/They

|

1–2 minutes
Is Moral Disgust Just Bad Evolution? | Robert Sapolsky via Big Think

“Hey, insular cortex, that does disgusting food… ‘Moral disgust’? I don’t know, that vaguely sounds sort of like that. Hey, somebody give me some duct tape. I’m going to strap moral disgust onto gustatory disgust.”

We mistake feeling disgusted by something as being a good litmus test for deciding what’s right and wrong. And what we know is somebody’s “disgusting, this is simply wrong” is somebody else’s “perfectly normal loving lifestyle”. And it’s tempting if your stomach is in a total uproar, you know, “if it makes you puke you must rebuke”.

Comments

Leave a Reply

Discover more from Lisa Marie Blair

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading